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IASI Newsletter
No. 7, November 1996
Table of Contents
IASI is a non-profit making organisation whose aim is to
stimulate, support and develop activities in the field of
international documentation and information for physical education
and sport. It brings together a world-wide network of scientists,
documentalists, librarians, information experts and managers of
sports information and documentation centres.
In order to reflect worldwide developments in sport information
the editor of the newsletter welcomes contributions from all
countries in all languages.
For contributions to the IASI Newsletter contact Nerida Clarke
Director Information Services Australian Sports Commission PO Box
176 Belconnen ACT 2616 Australia Email nclarke@ausport.gov.au or
Fax (+61) 062521681.
DID YOU KNOW?
- From 1990-1996 the total number of IASI members increased by
102%
- IASI is represented in all continents and represents 61
countries
- Institutional memberships of IASI have increased by 115% from
1990-1996
For contributions to the IASI Newsletter which are always
welcome contact:
- Nerida Clarke Director Information Services
- Australian Sports Commission
- PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616 Australia
- email: nclarke@ausport.gov.au
Fax (+61) 062521681.
For information about IASI contact:
- The IASI Secretariat c/o Sport for All
- Clearinghouse, Espace 27 Septembre,
- Boulevard Leopold -II, no.44
- B - 1080 Brussels
- Belgium.
- Telephone (+32) 2 413 2893
- Fax (+32) 2 413 2890.
The annual meeting of IASI was held from 1-6 September 1996 in
Netanya Israel at the Wingate Institute. This meeting was an
unqualified success and ensured that there was continuity in the
operation of the Association. after the cancellation of the meeting
earlier in the year.
Unfortunately many members were not able to reschedule their
programs in time after the cancellation of the May date. However
the quality of the meetings made up for the lack of numbers.
The program offered meetings of the Executive Committee, General
Assembly, IASI Open Forum, Presidential Boards, ad hoc working
groups and workshops on major topics. The organization of the
conference was very professional and we would like to congratulate
Ayala and her staff for the excellent arrangements of the official
as well as the social programs. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay in
such beautiful surroundings.
The following are the key decisions made by the Executive
Committee at the meeting:
- Minutes of the Malaga meeting, the Auditors report and the
1996-97 Budget plan were approved.
- The procedure for IASI Funding Applications has now been
simplified and members will be advised of these procedures.
- A grant of $2,000 was made for the organisation of an African
Regional Seminar for Sports Information.
- IASI will give patronage to the Compass project providing there
are no cost implications
- An ad-hoc working group on "Data On Sport In The Countries" is
to be formed which will prepare information on sports participation
and sports systems in single countries.
- The new IASI president is to take responsibility for the ad-hoc
working group on "IOC-IASI" relations to guarante regular contact
between the organisations.
- A new brochure with more detail on IASI activities will be
produced.
- Priority will be given to the regular publication of the
Newsletter rather than to a more scientific Bulletin.
- The Newsletter will be sent to all sports museums and to the
European Network of Sports Science in Higher Education.
(ENSSHE).
- The deadline for the production of the publication of the
"IOC-IASI Manual for Developing Countries" will be December
1996.
- It was decided to start 2 new ad-hoc working groups for the
Internet. One for Experts in Sports Science and one for Sports
Facilities.
- An ad-hoc working group was established to examine minor
modifications to the IASI statutes.
- A proposal to hold the 1998 meeting of the Executive Committee
and the Consultative Forum at the Hong Kong Sports Institute was
accepted.
Responses to the questionnaire regarding the future of IASI have
now been received from 14 members. These responses have been
collated and have been distributed to Regional Vice Presidents for
comment. These responses and any additional comments will then be
worked into a Draft Strategic Plan for IASI for the period
1997-2001 which it is hoped will be finalised at the General
Assembly in Paris in June 1997.
It is not too late for your comments on the future of IASI so
please pass these to Nerida Clarke or Albert Remans.
The IASI meeting was a happy yet sad occassion for the IASI
membership It was sad in that it was the occassion when Gilles
Chiasson resigned from the position of IASI President, a position
he has held since 1989. Gilles has made an outstanding contribution
to the Association and he has been a well respected leader through
whose efforts the Association has become more open, more
international and more progressive.
Gilles has set a fine example as a sport information
professional and it is largely through his representation that the
profession of sport information has gained increased
recognition.
Gilles' quietly spoken, friendly, gentle manner has done much to
enhance international understanding in sport and has contributed to
the increase in the membership of IASI in all regions of the
world.
Many members of IASI were not able to be present in Israel to
express their personal thanks to Gilles for his work however we
hope that he will continue to be an active member of IASI and that
we will see him in Paris to express our personal thanks for his
leadership over 7 years.
Nerida Clarke the Oceania Regional Vice President of IASI has
been elected as the interim IASI President to replace Gilles and
she will hold this position until the General Assembly in Paris in
June 1997 when a new 4 year term President will be elected.
At the Israel meeting two new Vice Presidents were announced
following regional elections and endorsement at the Extraordinary
General Assembly these new office bearers are:
Mrs Gretchen Ghent as the new Vice president for North America
and Mr Laurie Tempelhoff as the new Vice president for Africa.
Slovenian Sports Office
The Slovenian Sports Office which was founded in August 1994 by
the Ministry of Education and Sport, the Olympic Committee of
Slovenia and the Slovenian Sports Association and aims to give
these three important Slovenian sport institutions a common
professional service. The Slovenian Sports Office is providing
information about sports events and is also regularly covering and
maintaining a network of contact persons which act as a living link
between the office and the people who seek information, data and
advice.
The Internet address is http://ero.sp.uni-lj.si
Commonwealth Games Information
A number of sites with Commonwealth ames information are now
springing up. The 1998 Kuala Lumpar Games have a site
http://www.k198.com.my, the Manchester 2002 Games have a site
http://poptel.org.uk/commonwealth2002 and the Australian
Commonwealth Games Association also has a site http://www.ausport.gov.au/acga
SPORTCAL International & SPORTCAL Australia
Sportcal the leading world electronic sports calendar is
currently working on the development of an Internet interface to
Sportcal International which it is expected will be available in
1997. Sportcal Australia will work with Sportcal International to
make Australian event information available through the
Internet.
South African Sport Information
A wide range of information on all aspects of South African
sport is available through the Worldnet Africa site at http://africa.cis.co.za Laurie
Tempelhoff advises that the South Africa Sport Bibliographic Data
base will in the future be available through the Sport links on
this page.
A 2 day meeting of Australian (and one New Zealand) sport
information providers was held at the Queensland Academy of Sport
in Brisbane in October. This meeting discussed amongst other things
the Australian National Sport Information Strategy, collection
development policies, client definition, Internet services and
strategies to cope with recent budget cuts. Practical
demonstrations were given on SportNet the national electronic
network for sport being developed by the Australian Sports
Commission to which all State based information providers are being
connected.
Included in the meeting program were 2 addresses one from an
industry expert on technological change and its effect on
information centres and the other was by Nerida Clarke who outlined
the effects of technological change specifically in the sporting
environment.
The meeting agreed on the following actions:
- To develop a union list of sporting periodicals held by
Australian sports libraries and to make this available through the
Internet.
- To pursue a national sport information strategy to gain greater
recognition of sport information.
- To ensure that all Australian sporting publications are indexed
for SPORTDiscus.
The Institute of Physical Education and Sports of the University
of Antioquia (Colombia) will host the activities of 1997 SPORTCOM.
For the first time, SPORTCOM will organize two courses, the
traditional one on Sport Documentation for the centres belonging to
the Latin-American Network, and another one on Sports Direction and
Management.
As it has been doing since 1993, when it set up the
Latin-American Network for Sport Documentation, the Andalusian
Institute of Sport, at the time called Unisport, announced the 3rd
LATIN-AMERICAN COURSE ON SPORT DOCUMENTATION, this time focusing on
the subject "Direction and Management Techniques for Sport
Documentation Centres". This 40 hour course will be held in
Colombia, thanks to the kind offer of the Institute of Physical
Education and Sports of the University of Antioquia, one of the
most renowned and active centres in the field of Sport
Documentation within Latin-America.
This 3rd Course will be under the direction of Josi Aquesolo,
the person responsible for the Network, and it is addressed to all
documentalists and librarians of the centres belonging to SPORTCOM,
up to a maximum of 33 participants. Among the invited experts is
Pilar Iruretagoyena, from the University Carlos III of Madrid,
Patricia Arjona, manager of the IAD's computer area, Jeszs Roca,
director of the IAD's area of Certifications and Training and
several other management and direction experts.
The course contents will include documentary analysis and
retrieval, computer science applied to documentary management,
information sources and resources on the Internet, management and
direction systems, and marketing and communication of sport
documentation centres.
Several months ago, the Director of the Institute, Rodrigo
Arboleda, visited the IAD's headquarters in Malaga and reached a
cooperation agreement which may stretch out well beyond the field
of sport documentation. One of the outcomes of these conversations
was the decision of the IAD's Director, Juan de la Cruz Vazquez, to
add to the SPORTCOM program a new activity, addressed to sport
leaders and technical staff, club managers and politicians
responsible for sport in Latin-America, based on the long-lasting
tradition of the IAD, since 1984, in the field of training. Thus,
the 1st LATIN-AMERICAN COURSE ON SPORTS DIRECTION will be held with
as its main theme "Sport organization, leadership sponsorship and
marketing".
The course will have a length of 32 hours and will be under the
direction of Jeszs Roca Hernandez. The subjects to be dealt with
include, among others "Models and culture of sport organizations",
"Leadership and motivation in sport organizations", "Planning and
Management of sport organizations", "Information and communication
systems", "Marketing of sport organizations", and "Financing and
sponsoring ways for sport organizations".
Both courses, which will be developed simultaneously and will
take place at the Institute of Physical Education and Sports of the
University of Antioquia, from August 11th to 17th 1997.
On October 21-23, 1996 in Moscow, at the State Russian Academy
for Physical Education(RGAFK) a meeting of the Library Directors of
the educational Institutions for Physical Education of the Russian
Federation was held. Vladimir Soroko Director of the Republican
Scientific-and-Methodological Library for Physical Culture (RNMBFK)
of the Republic of Belarus was invited to take part in this
meeting. At the meeting it was noted that because of the financial
problems the Central Organ of Scientific-Technical Information for
Physical Culture and Sport (ZOONTI FIS) and the Branch Library of
the All-Union Research Institute for Physical Culture (VNIIFK)
ceased to exist.
In practice nowadays the system of scientific-and-technical
information in the field of education and sports is functioning on
the basis of the 24 libraries of the educational institutionsof the
Russian Federation (13 higher educational institutions and 11
technical schools and colleges).
The participants of the meeting came to a decision to establish
the Methodical Library Council on the basis of the
Education-and-Methodical Society (UMO) for Physical Education. The
Library of the RGAFK was recognized as a Coordination Organ. The
Consultative Group of the library-information system functioning in
the frames of the Commonwealth Independent States (CIS) was also
established. It was comprised of the directors of the following
libraries: RNMBFK,RGAFK and of the Siberian State Academy for
Physical Education (Omsk city). The Director of the RNMBFK, Mr.
Vladimir Soroko, presented a report entitled "Problems of Access to
the World Information Resources". Mr. Soroko explained the role of
IASI and advised the delegates of the proceedings of the
Consultative Forum held in September 1996 in Israel. He noted that
without the international databases at their disposal scientists
and practitioners in the sphere of physical education and sports of
Russian Federation and Belarus, as well as in other countries of
CIS, are practically isolated from the world information flow.
Besides he informed that as a result of participation in the
contest, organized by the Belarus Soros Foundation, RNMBFK had won
a grant.
Thanks to this grant our Library will get the database "Sport
Discus". On the other hand nothing is known in the world of
information about scientific achievements and practical activities
in the sphere of physical education and sport in the countries of
the CIS. RNMBFK in the only sports library on the territory of the
CIS represented in the IASI, so the participants of the
above-mentioned meeting expressed their wish to get full
information about IASI's activities with the help of the RNMBFK
Library.
The meeting decided to put forward a proposal to IASI to enter
information about the sports achievements in the countries of the
CIS into the international databases, including database "Sport
Discus",in English and in Russian language. With the purpose of
developing a branch library net the participants of the meeting
addressed the Heads of the Russian Federation educational
institutions to render help in organization, financing and
personnel selection.
- Vladimir Soroko
- Director of the Republican Scientific-and-Methodical
- Library for Physical Culture
- F.SKORINA AVE., 49
- 220005 MINSK, BELARUS
- Tel. No: work: 0172 2316690
- Fax. No: 0172 2316690
- E-mail: root@libsport.minsk.by
With increasing integration in Europe and the recognition of the
social importance of sport there is an increasing need to gain an
overall view of sports participation in each country and the
services provided to sports participants.
In view of this CONI (Italy) and the Sports Council (UK) some
years ago took part in creating the International Committee for
Sports Statistics within the International Statistical Institute
(ISI). This group have now initiated a project called COMPASS which
calls s for the Coordinated Monitoring of Participation in Sports
on a European Basis.
This project will result in the "European Report on Sports
Participation" which will be a useful document not only in Europe
but throughout the world where a number of countries are attempting
to monitor sports participation.
IASI is supportive of this project and has formed an ad-hoc
Working Group so that a wider group of IASI members can join the
project. This group will also prepare guidelines for setting up a
description of the sports system in a country (facts, figures and
structures), like the one used by the Council of Europe, so that
this can be used by the national centres all over the world.
Mr Alain Poncet President of the IASI 10th Scientific Congress
has reported that plans for the Congress are well underway and that
papers are being received from all parts of the world.
The Congress will take place from 10-12 June 1997 and will be
preceded by the annual IASI meetings and consultative forum from
7-9 June and will be followed on 13 June by the IASI General
Assembly.
For additional information on the Congress contact:
- Organising Committee
- IASI 10th Scientific Congress
- 11 avenue du Tremblay
- 75012 Paris
- France
- Fax: (33) 1 48081960
- Email: FRA7501@CRIUC.UNICAEN.FR
Based on a Report To IASI by:
A. Madella, M.L. Madella, L. Celesia, C. Veneziano, M. Bruni, C.
Galletti, S.Piazza.
The first edition of the Italian Thesaurus of Sport is now
available. The Italian Thesaurus is based on the methodological
standards adopted in the Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC),
although some specific adaptations have been introduced in order to
make it compatible with the linguistic and conceptual uses of the
Italian sport users.
The Thesaurus has been developed by the Centro di Documentazione
Sportiva of Siracusa, which was charged with the task by the Scuola
dello Sport (Italian Olympic Committee) in 1995. The Thesaurus is
based both on the terms contained in the SIRC Thesaurus (in order
to ensure maximum compatibility and ease of consultation) and on a
specific list of Italian keyboards that had been used in the past
for the indexing. The total number of terms included amounts to
3603. A parallel list of Sport Bibliography Subject Heading Codes
has been produced to make the procedure for searching and indexing
easier and to facilitate the proper development of semantic
fields.
The first draft of the Italian Thesaurus of Sport was circulated
at the end of 1995 and a first revision by a group of experts of
different fields was carried out together with a first control of
internal consistency. A second revision was undertaken in July 1996
in order to detect and clear all the remaining errors and the
contradictions and a working group with responsibility for updating
the Thesaurus has been appointed.
The structure and the methodological basis of the Thesaurus does
not differ from the rules adopted by SIRC for the latest edition of
the Sport Thesaurus. Scope notes and comments have been added in
order to explain the reasons for the choice of some terms.On many
occasions a compromise has been found between the uses of the
Italian sport community and the terminology adopted by SIRC, but in
most of the cases the national terminology has been preferred. The
indexing procedures have been described in a specific manual.
This Thesaurus will be soon available in a bilingual version
since the majority of the terms have been already associated to
English terms. For the few terms that have been included in the
Italian Thesaurus and which have no corresponding term in the SIRC
SPORT Thesaurus a specific scope note will be added.
- Gretchen Ghent
- Librarian Emeritus, University of Calgary Library
- Adjunct Asst. Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology
On March 7, 1994, the University of Calgary University Research
Grants Committee awarded me a short-term grant to index the
pre-1970 published books, dissertations, periodical articles,
essays and conference proceedings on Canadian physical education
and sport history for SPORT Discus, the international sport
database produced by the Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC)
in Gloucester, Ontario. The award was made with funds provided to
the University of Calgary by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada.
BACKGROUND
A number of years ago if one searched for sport citations in the
SPORT Discus one would find that there were less than 1800
citations with pre-1970 imprint dates. These citations came from
mainly two sources;
- a project on the history of weightlifting and bodybuilding
and
- the acquisition of the defunct SIRLS sociology of sport
database from the University of Waterloo
Other classical works have been included in the database from the
library of the Coaching Association of Canada which SIRC took over
in 1973.
ORGANIZATION OF THE PROJECT
The literature divides itself into bibliographic types and into
sport-specific and non-sport sources. After surveying the relevant
indexing services and bibliographies, assessing their
comprehensiveness and consistency, I decided that the best way to
survey the non-sport periodical literature, systematically, was to
work through the runs of journals. The SSHRCC grant monies has
enabled me to hire student assistants and they have been
instrumental in surveying over 140 academic and popular culture
Canadian journals (which I define as journals published in Canada
or on Canadian studies published in other parts of the world). In
the past year and a half, many articles have been identified in
diverse titles including; Alberta History, Alberta Journal of
Educational Research, Archivist, The Beaver, Broadcaster, Canadian
annual review, Canadian children, Canadian education and research
digest, Canadian dimension, Canadian welfare, Histoire
socialelSocial history, Journal of Canadian studies, Journal of
educational thought, McGill Journal of education, McGill University
magazine (1901-1920), Maclean's, Orbit, Queen's quarterly,
Saskatchewan history, This magazine, Urban history review. I have
also indexed one US serial, Journal of the West, as a number of
Canadian researchers have published there.
I have interpreted Canadian history very broadly and have
included in my list of serial titles national and local history,
education, political science, geography, philosophy, sociology,
current events/popular culture, anthropology among other social
sciences and humanities disciplines. Some topics e.g. fishing,
hunting, and fox hunting have not been indexed unless the material
has other social or cultural features to make it important to the
sport history literature. Also, I found it necessary to check
periodical runs up to the present year, although my grant
application stated pre-1 970 imprints. I feel it is important to be
assured a serial title was thoroughly and consistently covered for
the SPORT Discus.
At the beginning of the project periodical articles were
photocopied and sent to SIRC along with the coding sheets for
oversight by Marion Fournier, the Head Indexer. Presently most of
the indexing is entered in the word processing software,
WordPerfect and sent to SIRC via Internet. By utilizing the field
tags enclosed by exclamation points and followed by the
information, e.g. !SO10! CaACU (this is the tag for Location and it
is followed by the Interlibrary Loan symbol for the University of
Calgary Library), SIRC is able to upload the data inhouse (as they
do for the Australian data), thus saving time for the SIRC indexing
and data entry staff who can remain focused on the indexing of
current publications.
Early in the project, while the major periodical work was being
done by the student assistants, I took two other tacks in addition
to the important bibliographic control functions. I sent letters to
over 50 Canadian faculty researchers in sport history, philosophy
and sociology requesting the publication's list from their CV's,
and with this information, and that from my survey of the
bibliographies in sport history theses and dissertations, was able
to identify many essays in non-sport collected works along with
monographs, government publications, reports, other theses and
dissertations. This faculty input has been a gold mine of
information for the project. To date I have had a 60% response
rate. A third initiative of the project has been inspection of the
University of Calgary Library's collection of local and
institutional histories. Using the UC shelf list for specific parts
of the collection, we have completed the survey of the Alberta
local and city histories, part of Saskatchewan and the
institutional histories of Canadian collegiates and universities.
This is a wonderful source for specific sport history, which, at
times, contains rather raw and unsophisticated writing, nonetheless
is a fascinating body of material.
The fourth aspect of the project is the identification of
monographs and theses which are not in the SPORT Discus already. A
2000 item list of monographs/theses has been compiled using the
information from a host of bibliographies and from laborious
subject searching of the major Canadian library data base called
CATSS/REFCATSS, which is maintained by ISM Library Information
Services in Etobicoke, Ontario.
WORK TO BE ACCOMPLISHED
August-December 1996
There remain a number of important parts to be completed,
including:
- Completion of the indexing of monographs, dissertations and
reports (65% completed)
- The sport-specific periodical backruns
- Most of the 19th century periodicals, the relevant records from
the pre-1 900 Canadiana microfiche collection produced by the
Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproduction
- Rest of the local histories available inhouse and the
institutional histories available in other libraries in Canada
In closing, if you are curious about what bibliographic records
have been included, you can look for the frequently-used
interlibrary loan/location codes, CAACU, CAAEU, CAOMM in the SPORT
Discus (please note that using CAACU will also find an earlier
project on the Olympic Games, Calgary 1 988, completed in 1992, so
"not" out Olympic Games to view the current work). Each monthly
update to the online SPORT Discus will contain additional records
for I have submitted over 1600 records to the database to date and
have a healthy backlog of indexing to complete in the ensuing
months.
Mr Laurie Tempelhoff of the South African Sports Data and
Information Centre reported at the Israel meeting that major
changes are taking place in South African sport and there are also
changes in the development of sports information services. The
Department of Sport and Recreation in conjunction with the National
Sports Council and the National Olympic Committee of South Africa
has created the Sport Information and Science Agency (SISA) . This
jointly managed body will oversee various aspects of sport
information and sports science.
This refereed journal which is published twice a year was
founded for the purpose of disseminating new and current ideas,
methods and techniqies relating to the field of sports such as
psychology, administration, law, medicine and the media. The
journal is international in focus.
Articles should be submitted in English and should not exceed 20
double spaced typed pages. Footnotes should appear on a separate
page and follow a uniform style. The author should send 3 copies of
the article with a short biography. All charts, graphs and tables
must be submitted in camera ready form and an abstract of no more
than 50 words should be submitted.
Articles should be submitted to:
- International Sports Journal
- Dr Thomas Katsaros (Editor)
- University of New Haven
- 300 Orange Ave, West Haven
- CT 06516 USA.
Advertisements can be placed in the IASI Newsletter at a cost of
US$50.00 for a full A4 page or US$25.00 for half an A4 page.
Contact the Editor of the Newsletter if you wish to place an
advertisement.
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